No Recipe, Edward Espe Brown
No Recipe, Edward Espe Brown
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No Recipe
Cooking as Spiritual Practice

Author: Edward Espe Brown

Narrator: Matthew Josdal

Unabridged: 6 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/28/2018


Synopsis

Discover How to Cook—with Your Senses, Your Hands, and Your Heart

"Making your love manifest, transforming your spirit, good heart, and able hands into food is a great undertaking,” writes renowned chef and Zen priest Edward Espe Brown, “one that will nourish you in the doing, in the offering, and in the eating.” With No Recipe: Cooking as Spiritual Practice, Brown beautifully blends expert cooking advice with thoughtful reflections on meaning, joy, and life itself.

Listening to Brown’s witty and engaging collection of essays is like learning to cook—and meditate—with your own personal chef and Zen teacher. Drawing from a lifetime of experience, he invites us into his home and kitchen to explore how cooking and eating can be paths to awakening. Baking, cutting, chopping, and tasting are not seen as rigid techniques, but as opportunities to find joy and satisfaction in the present moment. “Forget the rules and forget what you’ve been told,” teaches Brown. “Discover for yourself by tasting, testing, experimenting, and experiencing.”

From soil to seed and preparation to plate, No Recipe brings us a collection of timeless teachings on awakening in the sacred space of the kitchen.

About Edward Espe Brown

Edward Espe Brown began cooking and practicing Zen in 1965. He was the first head resident cook at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center from 1967 to 1970. He later worked at the celebrated Greens Restaurant in San Francisco, serving as busboy, waiter, floor manager, wine buyer, cashier, host, and manager. Ordained a priest by Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, he has taught meditation retreats and vegetarian cooking classes throughout North America and Europe. He is the author of several bestselling cookbooks, including The Tassajara Bread Book, and the editor of Not Always So, a book of lectures by Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. He is also the subject of the critically acclaimed 2007 documentary film How to Cook Your Life. He resides in Fairfax, California.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Cindy

I couldn't get enough as I read the first 50 pages. But after that, it really slowed down a lot for me and became hard to read. The stories are very disjointed. However, when read in pieces the information is good and I enjoyed the opportunity to think about growing, becoming, and reflecting through......more

The chapter of enlivening the kale salad taste by taste was fabulous. Wish more of the book was like that.......more

Goodreads review by Rachel

Gorgeous, deep Zen connections between cooking and Buddhism.......more

Goodreads review by Roben

I have cherished all books by way of Edward Espe Brown. He calls for presence in the kitchen. Love.......more